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“As for the war – it is like this: not Alexander Blok with Rainer Maria Rilke but a machine gun with a machine gun. Not Alexander Scriabin with Richard Wagner but a dreadnought with a dreadnought. Had Blok been killed I would have mourned over Blok , had Rilke been killed I would have mourned over Rilke and none of the victories, either ours or theirs, would have consoled me.”

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